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INTEREST: U.S. State Department Includes Japan's 'Unfettered' Access to Animated Porn in Human Right


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ANN_Lynzee
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:16 pm Reply with quote
Citizen Klaus wrote:

Heck, animated porn isn't even really a major issue even within the section on Japan. Just look at the thing. The section on Japan is 28 single-spaced pages long, of which the section on animated porn constitutes a whole two sentences, which ANN reproduced in full.


Readers also appear to be focusing on the "sexually explicit cartoons, comics, and video games" part and not the beginning of the sentence which is "unfettered availability."

While the State Department's wording might imply a moral judgment about the content, the report's actual problem is that they believe there are no legal restrictions in place to access said content; i.e. minors can view/read/play it.

The second sentence is stating that experts believe Japan's culture accepts the content itself, i.e. it isn't controversial.

While I am not drawing a correlation between the fictional entertainment and actual crime, Japan does have a child pornography and teen sex trafficking problem that is highlighted in the report.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:19 pm Reply with quote
zrnzle500 wrote:
Aquamine-Amarine wrote:
Ugh. I can't with this Administration anymore. Their priorities are so messed up. Is it November yet?


You really think any of the candidates would be better on this issue? Especially Cruz who's backed by evangelicals?

Trump will make anime real!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:30 pm Reply with quote
My reaction as a french guy to this article about U.S pointing out depiction of abuse of children in japanese "medias/fiction" ?

Clean your own ass before worrying about someone else's ass.
OR
C'est l'hopital qui se fout de la charité. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:37 pm Reply with quote
Imouto Paradise 2 Shocked

I'm clearly behind on my reading.
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Paul D. Atreides



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:38 pm Reply with quote
This is the kind of shit that makes me fear for FAKKU's future.

Then there's also Project-H's soon to be launched funding campaign for Kodomo no Jikan. I really want to support it, but what if I get arrested? My life would be ruined, all because I wanted to support an artist who's work is not even pornographic.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:44 pm Reply with quote
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Among the problems listed are an "unfettered availability of sexually explicit cartoons, comics, and video games


AKA fiction. I can't believe this is an issue that is actually in the human rights report. It is not harming human rights in any way.

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The U.S. Department's report also references Japan's "JK Business" (jōshi kōsei, or high school girls) which includes compensating dating with adult men, massage parlors that hire underage girls, and cafes highlighted by its high-school age servers. The State Department brought up the continuing problem with JK Business in last year's report and flagged it as a type of human trafficking, stating that the compensated dates often end in commercial sex.

Other concerns include racial prejudice by police toward Africans and dark-skinned Asian minorities, the practice of law enforcement of selectively editing recorded statements for trial use, poor prison health and mental care, discriminatory employment contracts based on nationality, widespread abuse of persons with disabilities, social discrimination against certain national, ethnic, and racial minorities, and lack of legal protections for LGBTI groups.


See these? These are real issues. Not drawings of fictional children.
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rinkwolf10



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:51 pm Reply with quote
Wait, if it's loli porn shouldn't the requirement be the opposite. Not sell to anyone that is ABOVE the age of 18 Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:05 pm Reply with quote
I know the second part it's an unpopular opinion but porn involving minors, regardless if its real of fictional should be put to an end. Drawn Loli porn might encourage pedos to do the real thing so the less of that stuff, the better. Lets see if the 2020 Olympics movement can do something about this. This is gonna be my only post about this topic.

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Heishi



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:11 pm Reply with quote
Those poor drawings!

Woe is me.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:16 pm Reply with quote
GEO9875 wrote:
I know the second part it's an unpopular opinion but porn involving minors, regardless if its real of fictional should be put to an end. Drawn Loli porn might encourage pedos to do the real thing so the less of that stuff, the better. Lets see if the 2020 Olympics movement can do something about this.


What logical, in-depth and properly collected and corroborated research supports this notion? How many cases of actual child abuse of actual, living children exist that are actually, can logically and solely be linked back to the artistic expressions of illustrators and writers?
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Panzer Vor



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:24 pm Reply with quote
octopodpie wrote:
Individual reports are written for every single country.

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper

aisuru113 wrote:
You do realize this report is like 200 plus pages that covers just about every country in the world?

Not like they'll actually bother reading those other reports. The affairs of other nations do not matter to them when the honour of Japan is at stake.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:27 pm Reply with quote
Paul D. Atreides wrote:
My life would be ruined, all because I wanted to support an artist who's work is not even pornographic.


As somebody who has actually read the entirety of Kodomo no Jikan back in high school, it actually does pretty much turn into flatout porn later on. So yeah. Just FYI.
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Storm101



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:28 pm Reply with quote
Does nobody there know about the failure of our own protect act? This is so pathetic and hypocritical.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:30 pm Reply with quote
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Japan has "a culture that appears to accept the depiction of child sexual abuse harmed children."


The fact that the possession of real child pornography in Japan was illegalized only 2 years ago seems to point to a culture that doesn't really care. That these sorts of sexual depictions of children in anime/games has gained a degree of general popularity among otaku seems to point to a culture that is disturbingly accepting of child sexualization. It's abhorrent, and makes me very disappointed with Japanese culture.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:33 pm Reply with quote
I am sure that the United States is the most qualified country in the world to give lessons on the defense and promotion of human rights.
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